Search Inform Technologies, Releases IMSniffer Security Solution

October 31, 2007

Search solution module application firm, SearchInform Technologies, has released its IMSniffer security line, designed to intercept all instant messenger traffic within a network.

SearchInform IMSniffer, a program that intercepts all information sent by means of instant messaging clients (MSN, ICQ, QIP etc.) and allows you to prevent confidential information disclosure, monitor your employee’s workflow and control the company’s outgoing messaging traffic.

The program saves all intercepted message history logs into its own database and allows the user to conduct search through it employing SearchInform system’s most advanced search capacities (stemming, thesaurus, similar search, etc.). IMSniffer offers various criteria to choose from to narrow the search down: you can choose two employees whose message history you want to check and/or search only through their message history over a certain specified period of time.

IMSniffer consists of a client and server parts. The latter is responsible for intercepting and storing messages into a database and indexing all text data. The network traffic from practically any network adapters, including Wi-fi and ADSL can be intercepted. The client part can be connected to the server whenever the user needs to work directly with the messages.

SearchInform IMSniffer main features include: Message history of two recipients; Full text search in instant messenger logs with due consideration to stemming; Unique similar search feature; Control over employees; instant messaging correspondence; User access rights differentiation.

SearchInform Technologies was founded in 1995 and has been operating in the area of information technologies with special focus on information searching, storing and processing. The range of company’s products is quite large and encompasses from mass production of single user-oriented products to ready business solutions to be integrated into corporate systems. Owing to its extensive experience in various projects, the company offers its services on developing custom information systems of any complexity.

Recently, SearchInform debuted the release of a new version of its professional plagiarism detection system, PlagiatInform.The new version, PlagiatInform 1.3, offers the user three different ways to check documents for plagiarism:

-Quick check is used for preliminary evaluation of papers and enables the user to detect the papers containing uncovered plagiarism momentarily.
- Smart-mode checking allows the user to scan the work more thoroughly, and detects plagiarism even if the text has been significantly edited or compiled from extracts taken from multiple sources.
-In-depth check provides the user with a maximally detailed report on the original sources of plagiarism.

PlagiatInform 1.3 has a considerably improved search algorithm, which significantly speeds up the system&’s performance. The program’s interface has been redesigned to look more user-friendly and convenient. PlagiatInform, equipped with a unique patented similar document search technology, is an efficient solution to the problem of plagiarism. Now featuring some of SoftInform search technology’s most up-to-date functions, the program identifies the fact of plagiarism with evermore accuracy. In case PlagiatInform doesn’t detect plagiarism in the modified text, the efforts made to edit it were substantial enough for the work to be considered original.

SearchInform search modules work in products of such companies as Hummingbird DM (document-management of Western grand developer Hummingbird), PDM Lotsia Plus from the Russian developer of project documentation management systems Lotsia Soft, and in HelpDesk system of IPI company.